Managing Director, Advanced Infrared Solutions

About this role

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Advanced Infrared Solutions (AIRS), formerly American Infrared Solutions, was acquired by Anduril Industries in 2025 and now operates as part of the Imaging Business Line. For more than 10 years, AIRS has designed and built world-class, high-performance cooled infrared cameras and subsystems, including critical components such as Integrated Dewar Cooler Assemblies (IDCAs). From its site in Hudson, NH, AIRS is expanding to supply these critical components both internally, to Anduril's Imaging products, and externally, to serve as a merchant supplier to the broader defense, space, and commercial industrial base. Growing the external merchant supplier business alongside internal production is a core strategic priority for the Business Line.

As a member of the Supply Chain Team, you will be responsible for managing supplier relationships, negotiating prices, and ensuring parts are delivered on time. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part a growing and dynamic team working closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to support the development and sourcing of cutting-edge defense technologies. The right person for this role is someone who can excel in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment where small teams share a broad variety of duties; has strong people and communication skills; is eager to identify opportunities, find solutions, execute plans, and evaluate results critically and expediently; is committed to learning from mistakes and driven to improve and enhance performance of oneself, others, and the company.

ABOUT THE JOB

As Managing Director, Advanced Infrared Solutions, you are the site lead for our Hudson location and the single owner of AIRS execution end-to-end — not just production, but the entire business. You will report to the Imaging Business Line General Manager and partner with the Imaging leadership team and teams across Anduril corporate (finance, recruiting, security, etc.) to run the strategy, operations, and financial performance of AIRS.

Most importantly, you own driving revenue, expanding the external merchant supplier business, and delivering units on time to meet customer commitments, both internal and external. Your work will vary from quick-turn operational fire-fighting, to building and redesigning processes, to leading high-impact strategic initiatives and scaling manufacturing. This role puts you in command of every part of the AIRS business — program management, engineering, production, growth, and corporate functions — while working closely with and supporting the Imaging GM to drive toward business success.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own AIRS revenue (primary accountability): Carry the AIRS revenue target and P&L, ensuring units are delivered on time. Develop the external merchant-supply strategy and build a robust business development and growth pipeline process in collaboration with the AIRS Director of Business Development. Set commercial pricing strategy, expand existing accounts, and pursue new customers and markets across defense, space, and other commercial — treating external growth as a core success metric.

• Define the IDCA product roadmap: Identify market and customer needs and shape the forward product strategy

• Direct internal R&D strategy: Prioritize and fund R&D investments that differentiate AIRS's cooled IR and IDCA products and align development with where the market is heading.

• Serve as the senior on-site leader accountable for safe, high-quality, on-time delivery of IDCAs and cooled IR products. Execute against production output, throughput, and quality and delivery standards that are set and directed at the Division level, under the direction of the Imaging Head and Deputy Head of Production, while providing on-the-ground inputs to help shape those targets.

• Scale manufacturing capacity to grow external output in line with Business Line and Divisional mandates, and own supply chain resilience for critical materials

• Drive strategy and oversight of day-to-day business operations for AIRS , executing against the mandates and goals set and directed by the Division across financial tracking, staffing/hiring, corporate governance, and facilities, and providing inputs to help shape them — working with cross-functional partners across each domain. Specific examples include:

• Managing the financial performance of AIRS against the budget, margin, and financial targets set and directed by the Division and FP&A — executing to those mandates while providing inputs to help shape them, tracking financial health of the budget against goals, driving actions to keep operating expenses within budget, and assessing financial data to build strategies that drive toward the Division’s margin targets

• Providing inputs for Monthly Business Reviews and Quarterly Business Reviews for presentation to Anduril executives

• Building the annual plan for AIRS within the goals and mandates set by the Division as part of the corporate planning cycle, providing inputs to inform Divisional direction

• Define the talent, headcount, and org-design plan required to scale the business against growth targets, and set hiring priorities and strategies with recruiting to attract and retain the critical engineering, production,

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